Old Fashioned Birthday Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Beat butter until light. Add sugar and beat again until very light and fluffy. Beat eggs until light and add slowly to the butter, beating thoroughly and as lightly as you can after each addition. Add flavorings. Mix salt, mace, baking powder with the flour. Fold, a cup at a time, into the butter mixture. Do this thoroughly, but lightly, so that flour is well incorporated. Pour mixture into a well-buttered and lightly floured bundt pan or Turk's head mold. Put into a cold oven, then bring to 325. Bake for 1 1/2 hours or until the cake is golden brown and has shrunk slightly from the side of the pan. It should test done when a knife blade comes out clean. It will have a cracked top surface. Let cake stand to cool for ten minutes, then remove from pan to cake rack. When serving, dust lightly all over with powdered sugar. Cut into thin slices. This cake may be wrapped in a cloth lightly moistened with brandy. It keeps for weeks in the refrigerator.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a medium bowl, then set aside. Cream the butter and sugar in a stand mixer on low speed until it looks pale yellow, about 4 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time. Scrape down the sides after adding each egg. Mix in the vanilla and lemon extracts. Add a third of the flour mixture. Mix well and scrape down the sides. Add half of the sour cream. Mix well and scrape down the sides. Add another third of the flour mixture. Mix well and scrape down the sides. Add the remaining sour cream. Mix well and scrape down the sides. Add the remaining flour. Mix well and scrape down the sides. Use your spatula to scrape the bottom of the mixing bowl to be sure everything is incorporated well.
• Spray a 9-inch Bundt pan well. Pour the batter into the Bundt pan and smooth the top. Bake until golden brown on top, 1 hour 15 minutes. Use a cake tester to check to see if the cake is done; if the tester comes out clean, it's done. If not ready, bake in increments of 5 minutes. Let the cake cool in the Bundt pan for 15 minutes, then invert onto a wire rack and remove the pan to cool completely.
• Grilled pound cake is best with cake that is 3 to 5 days old. Preheat a griddle with lines. Cut slices about 1/2 inch thick. Grill each side for 2 to 3 minutes. (If cooking on an outdoor grill, grill just until grill marks appear, 30 seconds to 1 minute per side.) Serve immediately with fresh berries or a fruit compote.

Steps:

• Pre heat oven to 325 degrees.
• Grease loaf pan. Can line if desired.
• Cream butter and sugar until all granules are dissolved and you no longer feel them between your fingertips.
• Sift the flour and measure.
• Add the salt and mace.
• Sift all together once more.
• Add eggs one at a time, alternating with the flour to the creamed mixture.
• Beat until light and fluffy.
• Add the vanilla.
• Pour into prepared greased pan.
• Bake 325 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes.
• Using tester to test.

Steps:

• Preheat oven 325 degrees.
• In mixing bowl cream butter and sugar.
• Add 1 egg at a time, beating after each.
• Gradually add sifted flour, 1/2 cup at a time, til all blended.
• Add lemon juice and lemon rind, blend inches.
• Pour into a buttered and floured tube pan.
• Bake 1hr 15mins to 1hr 30mins; Til toothpick in center comes out clean.